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lisivka on Feb 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Docker Official Images Are Moving to Alpine Linux

musl is about 2x slower than glibc: http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html . Other libraries are even worse.

hga on Feb 6, 2016 [–]

Note that comparison is by the musl author, but it's several point releases old for it and glibc.

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